Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, Paris, 1580, Parisian binding, citron morocco richly gilt

REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNITANUM. De conservanda bona valetudine opusculum scholae Salernitanae, ad regem Angliae: cum Arnoldi Novicomensis, medici & philosophi antiqui enarrationibus utilissimis, denuo recognitis et auctis per Ioan. Curionem, & Iacob. Crellium. Cum aliis quibusdam scriptionibus, quas pagina sequens tibi indicabit [sub-title:] Tuendae sanitatis ratio per sex rerum (ut medici vocant) non naturalium ordinem, ex graviorum medicorum scriptis diligenter congesta, opus futuro medico pernecessarium, nunc locupletius & fidelius quam antea editum. Cum indice rerum copiisissimo. Authore Georgio Pictorio Villingan. Paris: Jérôme de Marnef & Denise Girault (widow of Guillaume Cavellat), 1580

A fine Parisian binding by the Atelier of the Second Palmette for the Venetian diplomat Pietro Duodo (1554-1611), who owned a travelling library of 90 works in 133 volumes, in bindings colour-coded by subject.

16mo (123 x 84 mm). Roman type, 29 lines plus headline. Collation: A-2G⁸ 2H⁴: 244 leaves. Title-page with woodcut device, ruled in red throughout.

Binding: Parisian binding (123 x 82 mm.), by the Atelier of the Second Palmette for Pietro Duodo, ca 1597, citron morocco richly gold tooled, frame of gilt fillets containing palm leaves and sprays of laurel interspersed with small stars, central panel filled with a semé of 14 oval wreaths enclosing 6 different flowers, with other floral tools, open bud tools, small circles and small stars in the interstices, large oval in centre enclosing, on the upper cover, Duodo's arms, on the lower cover his motto ("EXPECTATA NON ELVDET") above an emblematic plant with 3 flowers, flat spine, richly gilt with horizontal title, edges gilt. (Expertly rebacked and recornered retaining original spine).

Provenance: Pietro Duodo (1554-1611) — Joseph Smith (1757-1822), of Shortgrove Hall, Newport, Essex, gift inscription dated 1807 — E.G. Peirson, nineteenth-century ownership inscription to front free endpaper — The Adderley Library, Marlborough College, Wiltshire, bookplate — Sotheby's, London, 28-30 July 1948, lot 851, bought by Francis Edwards, London for £6 — Pierre Berès, Paris, Catalogue 55 (Paris 1953), item 109 — Erasmushaus/Haus der Bücher, Katalog 904 (Basel [2000]), item 37 — Pierre Bergé & Jean-Baptiste de Proyart, Vente Pierre Berès: 80 ans de passion, Paris, 28 October 2005, lot 63. Acquisition: Purchased in 2008 from Rossignol, Paris. References: USTC 172440; Philippe Renouard, Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle: Fascicule Cavellat (Paris 1986), p.297: 388; Ludovic Bouland, "Livres aux armes de Pierre Duodo, Vénitien et non pas de Marguerite de Valois" in Bulletin du bibliophile (1920), pp.66-80